How do I use mastodon?I signed up an account and it just recommended I follow super gay tranny activists. I am not really interested in politics. I searched for music I like but there were no users or hashtags related to it. I looked up food I have been thinking about it and no one mentioned it. How do you find people to follow?
>>109244191Mastodon only briefly had any buzz when troons were trying to find somewhere to go after Elon bought Twitter and before Bluesky came out to absorb them
>>109244226I tried twitter but it only shows me black people and black people tweets.
>>109244191You need to be smart with your hashtag searches, they're kind of all over the place. I found a lot of cool photographers and painters just using #art and #photography
>>109244261I am kind of hesitant to explore on mastodon. I made an account like 3 years ago and was following FOSS development. But, then like 10 of the developers were actually super hyper sexual hardcore pornography transgenders and my whole feed just flooded with transgender sex videos and I deleted my account. I hope such an occurrence doesn't happen again.
>>109244378You can tailor your feed exactly how you want it. If you find people you don't like, you can mute them so they never show up again. I think you can mute entire hashtags and setup keyword filters. Depending on the version of your server, there's tons of ways to customize your setup. It just takes a little time to get it just the way you want it.
>>109244191Hard to swallow pill but all social medias are garbage no matter how alt and different they are the entire model is bounded to fall… shitter was the best out there until it also fell apart and became whatever jeeted cesspool it is now
>>109244191Have you tried Truth Social? It's the most anti-censorship, pro-free speech platform on the internet.
do you really even want to know who you're talking with? I hate the idea. communication should be ephemeral and anonymous if it's not in-person.
